etween the shape of elitism and elitism as funda mental human experience: "I think he half expected her to wander into one of his parties," Jordan Baker tells Nick, "but she never did" (Fitzgerald 84).
Gatsby's determinedly elegant yet exuberant parties and al most studiously aristocratic manner with others he perceives to be of high society are phony. Nick Carraway is "old sport," a reflection of Gatsby's ignorant perception of how the elite address one another. Yet Gatsby also has palpable loneliness for meaningful connection with others and the pathetically false hope, as it turns out, that he can reach meaningful connection with Daisy. As the action unfolds, Gatsby does effectively duplicate one transpersonal elitist strategy of the elite, which is the instrumental use of others. Nick is Gatsby's way to Daisy, once Gatsby knows Nick's family connection. Gatsby, meanwhile, is Daisy's short-term revenge on Tom for his low-class girlfriend Myrtle. And Gatsby becomes Daisy and Tom's way out of responsibility for Daisy's hit-and-run murder of Myrtle. The difference is that the Buchanans use Gatsby to close ranks, with barely a second thought. Gatsby, whose memory and passion are inconsolable,
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